Ghostbusters: Afterlife

The trailer made my soul sad. 340,000 Thumbs down already FAR out weighing the "likes".

Sony is clearly deleting a lot of the negative comments but they are still being posted faster then they can be taken down. I think it's misleading to start off flashing 30 years ago a team, etc, etc like the movie is a sequel of that, like they are aware of the original Ghostbusters in this universe. There was nothing particularly funny about it. Most of the Ghosts looked great (but in fairness in this day and age they should) but other then that there is nothing in it that hooks me. The jokes seem forced or weak. I have no problem with an all female cast and I'm usually a sucker for good CGI but if the trailer was there to entice me as a fan of the original to see this movie than it was an epic fail nor do I really see anything that is suppose to bring in new fans.

I liked the idea of the original sequel concept of the original Ghostbusters were too old ( Ray Stantz has issues with his eye, knee, and hip as well as fitting into the jumpsuit, etc ) to go on and they were training a new team. This just feels such a CGI filled mess. I think if this was a movie that couldn't associate with the original Ghostbusters brand power behind it, it would be a straight to DVD movie or just not have been made.

I think I laughed about as much as I laughed at any trailer for Deadpool.

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I disagree. I think the jokes are fine, the trailer was just badly edited.

That different sense of humor is definitely going to kill the movie for a lot of people though.

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isn't the CGI vs. special effects debate kind of dumb? the problem is that you're arguing about these things as if they aren't ultimately subjective. these aren't facts you're spouting, they're opinions.

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Nailed it.

Depends on what you're referring to.

Slimer's a puppet:

http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/3/111...ailer-analysis

"He was a puppet, then we CG'd over him"


So the Slimer seen isn't a puppet. They used a puppet for reference then blanketed it with CGI.

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Rodent, that Slimer avatar is kinda gross. Can't you put on a nice Bill Murray avatar, at least?

This one's good. Sums up my feelings about this movie as well.

THANK YOU.

Actually, I think he could mean that it was merely enhanced with CGI as opposed to replaced entirely with it.

Watched that. He's got some good points, but he's overreacted before.

That whole video feels like the last 10-15 pages of this thread being condensed into a ten-minute rant, so its inclusion just feels incredibly redundant. It's funny how, in the middle of regurgitating all the same complaints that people have been making about the movie even before the trailer came out, he does concede that it could just be a single badly-made trailer before acting like this movie is "dead to [him]".

Yeah, it reminds me of that slam video in the Star Wars 7 thread Raven posted.

From people who get offended at everything, who find everything problematic. How can they not see the offence and bullying, in making such a movie? Shall we remake Ghost and dirty dancing with ladyboys and a death count? Makes me sick. Someone has to make a film that hurts women as going extreme lengths and going out of their way to do so.

I'm all for the feminist movement and everything, but rebooting a franchise with an all female-cast just seems a tad silly for me - especially if your intention is to promote gender equality using the film. Mixing art with self-righteous socialist agendas... I mean c'mon, just the sound of that is just, wrong.

The thing that bothered me more though wasn't the cast genders, but the tilt towards full-blown silliness in the story tone, which the original Ghostbusters didn't really have. I mean, this is obviously a completely different movie in tone altogether. It reminds me more of Spy, that secret agent parody movie, and less of Ghostbusters.

Well said. I'm all for Feminazi's too but I'm getting sick and tired of them jumping out of my cornflakes - ruining film franchises. Next will they be printing their slogans on contact lenses?